Our Mission

Equipping you for life's journey with Jesus:

Now a team of 60 – we've been serving the Church since 2004
Together we've raised over £1,000,000 for UK Christian charities
25,000 churches are using the Eden Plus account

An Eden team member standing among warehouse book shelves

Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms

Name: Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms
Price: 12.22 GBP
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert C Culley
ISBN: 9781442639591

by Robert C Culley

Paperback
150 pages
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publis
15.3 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm

Today‘s price £12.22

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 7 days

Buying for a Church or School? Get 10% off every order and Buy Now Pay Later

Bulk buy prices from £10.75

Quantity

Price per item

You save

4-6

£11.79

Save 4%

7-9

£11.38

Save 7%

Buying for a Church or School? Get 10% off every order and Buy Now Pay Later

An Eden warehouse team member picking orders in Chester

Every order is picked and packed with care by our warehouse team in Chester

Bookmark this item

For students of biblical poetry and ancient texts

Explains how Hebrew poets used structural formulas

You will gain deeper insight into Psalm composition

An academic exploration of how ancient poets used formulaic language to craft the beauty of the Psalms.

Our Mission

Equipping you for life's journey with Jesus:

Now a team of 60 – we've been serving the Church since 2004
Together we've raised over £1,000,000 for UK Christian charities
25,000 churches are using the Eden Plus account

Free delivery on orders over £10

In Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms, Robert C. Culley discusses dynamics involved in oral composition of poetry, particularly regarding Biblical poetry, including the characteristic of parallelism, both as a composition device and as a framework within which other compositional aids would be necessary for a poet "writing" orally. Formulas, together with such devices as standard word-pairs, aided poets in composing regular lines within a literary tradition whose primary characteristic was parallelism of ideas. "Poets use formulas to build lines," Culley explains; "the line and the colon, of which the line generally has two, are the most common formal divisions of Hebrew poetry to which possible formulas and formulaic phrases would conform."